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SPEECH OF GROVER CLEVELAND, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AT PRINCETON'S SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, OCTOBER 23, 1896

SPEECH OF GROVER CLEVELAND, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AT PRINCETON'S SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, OCTOBER 23, 1896

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SPEECH OF GROVER CLEVELAND, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AT PRINCETON'S SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, OCTOBER 23, 1896

by CLEVELAND, Grover [CLEVELAND, Frances]

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Vertical crease down center. Very Good or better, and scarce
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Washington, 1896. First Edition. wraps. Vertical crease down center. Very Good or better, and scarce. An eight-page speech bound in the original printed orange wraps. This copy is SIGNED as President by Cleveland at the bottom blank margin of the last page of text and dated "Oct. 26, 1896." It is also INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Mrs. Grover Cleveland at the top of the front cover: "Mr. H. W. Green./from/Frances F. Cleveland." President Grover Cleveland, 49, married Frances Folsom, 21, in June 1886 at the White House, the only President to be married in the White House. When the Clevelands left the White House in 1897, they retired to Princeton where Grover Cleveland died in 1908. In 1913 Frances married a Princeton University professor of archaeology becoming the first presidential widow to remarry. There was an H. W. Green active in New Jersey politics in the middle of the nineteenth century, and this is likely the inscribee.

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Charles Agvent US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
013886
Title
SPEECH OF GROVER CLEVELAND, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AT PRINCETON'S SESQUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION, OCTOBER 23, 1896
Author
CLEVELAND, Grover [CLEVELAND, Frances]
Format/Binding
Wraps
Book Condition
Used - Vertical crease down center. Very Good or better, and scarce
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Paperback
Place of Publication
Washington
Date Published
1896
Keywords
Signed, Autographs, Inscribed, Speeches, Princeton, Frances Cleveland, First Ladies
Bookseller catalogs
First Ladies; Grover Cleveland; Presidents;

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